From tsl@trustix.org Thu Apr 1 08:10:13 2004
From: Trustix Security Advisor
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:24:11 +0200
Subject: TSLSA-2004-0015 - tcpdump
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Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2004-0015
Package name: tcpdump, libpcap
Summary: New upstream
Date: 2004-03-30
Affected versions: Trustix 1.5 2.0 2.1
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Package description:
Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. Tcpdump can
capture and display the packet headers on a particular network interface or
on all interfaces. Tcpdump can display all of the packet headers, or just
the ones that match particular criteria.
Libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring.
Libpcap can provide network statistics collection, security monitoring and
network debugging. Since almost every system vendor provides a different
interface for packet capture, the libpcap authors created this
system-independent API to ease in porting and to alleviate the need for
several system-dependent packet capture modules in each application.Install
libpcap if you need to do low-level network traffic monitoring on your
network
Problem description:
The new upstream version of tcpdump fixes several bugs, some security
related. Amongst others: CAN-2004-0183 and CAN-2004-0184
Action:
We recommend that all systems with this package installed be upgraded.
Please note that if you do not need the functionality provided by this
package, you may want to remove it from your system.
Location:
All Trustix updates are available from
About Trustix Secure Linux:
Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers. With focus
on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept safe and up to
date from day one using swup, the automated software updater.
Automatic updates:
Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically
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If you want to contribute by testing the various packages in the
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You may also use swup for public testing of updates:
site {
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Verification:
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MD5sums of the packages:
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8f3a7bdd432fd9f18e999a9e2de758b9 2.1/rpms/libpcap-0.8.2-2tr.i586.rpm
0d0b2a05023114f26ed764acfe0dc2f3 2.1/rpms/tcpdump-3.8.2-2tr.i586.rpm
8483afc65ac796b485c98216f23ccf3f 2.0/rpms/libpcap-0.8.2-1tr.i586.rpm
7b7728b913e2d45f7cd8381c37acbe3d 2.0/rpms/tcpdump-3.8.2-1tr.i586.rpm
6b366e7f10eb1000bbb03f06e81dfdb4 1.5/rpms/libpcap-0.8.2-1tr.i586.rpm
81c4588e33147a04f5f2e4832123e9f4 1.5/rpms/tcpdump-3.8.2-1tr.i586.rpm
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Trustix Security Team
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